Firefox Extensions You Can’t Live Without
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What makes Mozilla Firefox the fastest growing web browser amongst computer users? From utilizing web standards in displaying web pages, to its tabbed navigation, Firefox rivals Internet Explorer as the web browser of choice. But what makes Firefox so appealing is its customizable features. Users are able to change the skin of their web browser to their preferences and add functions to make web browsing easier and efficient. Welcome to the world of Firefox extensions.
With over 1500 extensions available, it’s hard to find that needle in the haystack. I’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of popular and powerful extensions all Firefox users should use.
A must for anyone pursuing web design or development. Adds a menu and a toolbar to the browser with various tools, such as outlining divs, hiding images, viewing CSS source code and more.
FoxyTunes allows you to control your favorite media player without leaving the browser. Installed as a toolbar, you can find lyrics, covers, videos, bios of your favorite artists. Control playback and volume and see who is playing instantly through FoxyTunes.
Can’t find anything new or exciting on the internet? StumbleUpon discovers web sites based on your interests, learns what you like and brings you more.
If you love to buy books online, then this extension is just for you. If you are tying to save money on book purchases than Book Burro is a simple application that sense you viewing a book selling site, and simply displays a dropdown menu listing alternative prices at several other book selling sites.
Tab Mix Plus enhances Firefox’s tab browsing capabilities. It includes such features as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, plus much more. Customizing this extension can seem a little daunting seeing as though it has more option than Firefox does, so hopefully this PDF can help clear things up.
Brings international weather from AccuWeather.com to your Firefox web browser. You can use your US zip code or you can easily find your town or city by using the built in search tool.
Accessed by right-clicking anywhere on a page, this extension shows Alexa traffic information, Google Linked or Google Related information, performs a Whois query, and searches Technorati for references. This extension is extremely helpful for those who want to learn more about a site or conduct a search based on the information contained on a site
PicLens transforms your browser into a 3D slideshow to view photos off Google, Yahoo, SmugMug, Flickr, Photobucket, and DeviantArt. Resembles the ability iTunes gives you while browsing through album art.
Every time you click on a link, checks if the target is a PDF file and in this case let you choose to either open PDF file inside a new tab, download it, or view it as HTML.
FireFTP free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
Lets you manage and switch between multiple proxy configurations quickly and easily. You can also use it as an anonymizer to protect your computer from prying eyes.
Allows you to manage multiple Gmail accounts and receive new mail notifications. Displays your account details including unread messages, saved drafts, spam messages, labels with new mail, space used, and new mail snippets.
Customize Google is a very robust extension that lets you customize many features of the services provided by Google. Block advertisements, add links from other search engines directly into your search results, remap Google Images search results to exact location and many other services. You won’t be disappointed.
With Clipmarks, you can clip the best parts of web pages. Whether it’s a paragraph, sentence, image or video, you can capture just the pieces you want without having to bookmark the entire page.
Adds a torrent search bar to your Firefox toolbar and search numerous torrent sites for the right download.
Wizz RSS News Reader is a fully functional RSS and Atom news reader/aggregator extension.
Automate your web browser to record and replay repetitive tasks. Essential for entering passwords, filling out forms and anything else you can think of. Just add to the list of tasks and iMacros does the rest.
An interesting extension that allows for opening and closing tabs or moving forwards and backwards on a web page with a simple mouse gesture.
Rovr fetches posts from your favorite blogs about anything you’re browsing, and shows you summaries you can open read posts without leaving the web page you were on.
Just right-click after selecting a word to see its meaning. This extension is ideal for those who doesn’t like to switch their window to see the meaning of a word.